Weekend Recap

All I have to say is I got to hang out with my wonderful family this weekend. I played with my 2 year old niece, who seems to be in love with WF more than me sometimes, and I snuggled my little nephew Declan until my arms hurt. I just love going to spend time with my family in Houston. 

I did go to a baby shower on Saturday. While there a woman gave the guest of honor the most unusual poem ever. She then made her read it out loud. I am not going to give you the whole poem just yet but let me just give you a taste. It involved a crack mother and her baby, abortion, gay couples rights to adopt, teen pregnancy, test tube babies and judgment calls on mistake babies. REALLY! It was given to a mom to be as a serious poem for her to hang in her home. Did I mention the crack baby part? 

In addition to this party WF and I babysat for a few hours. two adults, two kids and two dogs was too much! WF is great with the kiddos but he damn near had a break down. Let's just say I don't think we will be making sweet sweet music together any time soon. After our experience of feeding, bathing and putting to bed two babies with out any help from their parents, WF was reconsidering parenthood in general. 

Always a good time. Hope you ladies had a great weekend, filled with all the laughing and love that mine was. 

Thoughts and Thanks

 

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Ladies, I can't thank you all enough for the support and thoughts you shared with me. I have been having just one of those weeks and knowing that I have support for you really helped. Lots of ups and downs this week and I am so ready for the weekend to be here. I really need to change things up at my office and make things happen for me. I have not been happy there for a while. It is mainly because I never feel like I am going to get any new responsibility, or that anything will change (and the whole everyone is kinda mean thing too). Its frustrating. I am hoping that things will get better soon. I don't really want to leave because in theory I like what I do.

With these feelings and my concerns of being unhappy outside of wedding world I have been thinking a lot about how to make things better That being said I am going to put a one month moratorium on wedding planning (I am going to try really hard at this I promise). I am working on planning things in my life other than my wedding. I have been pretty busy at work and with wedding planning on top of that I have been letting myself become the crazy girl that has nothing else to talk about but my wedding. I need to focus on my relationship with WF and I need to focus on my relationship with my friends. If I don't improve and maintain these relationships my perfect wedding will not be worth it. Let's face it I am WAY ahead of the game when it comes to wedding planning. I can relax a bit for the next month and still make my day perfect.

So, I can not guarantee that I will not obsess about details of my wedding and breakdown and plan something but I am going to make a effort to put it on the back burner. Did any of you who planned your weddings ever feel like you had to do this?

Take that "The Knot" checklist!

I have booked my cake baker. Done and done!

It was super easy to pick my baker. I am going with Michelle's Pattiserie. She does amazing work, her cakes were FANTABULOUS and she was well within my budget. BAM. Take that checklist that never ends just to piss me off.

I love my cake. It was featured in "The Knot" a few months ago and I have been in love with it since. I picked two flavors for the cake, tiramisu and fresh strawberries and cream. I am totally obsessed. Here is my cake:

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I will be putting different flowers on the cake but you get the general idea.WF and I just could not get over how yummy and afordable she was! I did not even have to think, we just got the cake. Perfection. Do you like?

Weekend Recap

This weekend was a lot of fun. The weather in Texas is just perfect right now so I had the windows open in the house all weekend. I just love the fresh air.

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WF had a procedure done to his foot so we were pretty limited in what we could do. Friday night we just did our normal movie night. We watched the SCARIEST movie EVER, Paranormal Activity. Personally I dont like scary movies, but WF loves them. He did not even suggest we try to watch this movie knowing how scary it was. I watched it terrified the whole time. It is not gory, just a huge mind fudge of a movie. The whole night while trying to fall asleep I kept thinking I was seeing things or hearing things. I have not had a good nights sleep since then. SERIOUSLY, dont watch it.

Saturday I got new tires, that was a nice raping, UGH. That night we went to Carli's cupcake party. I tricked WF with the promise of free cupcakes. He was there bum toe and all what a trooper. We then just went home and watched Weeds and passed out.

Sunday we had brunch with friends at a new place in the 360 building. Other than the service, I would highly recommend it. It was super yummy, had $2 mimosas and was very reasonably priced. Garrido's was a great place to relax and get my buzz on. We then napped most of the afternoon. Awesome weekend if you ask me.

I am going to a cake tasting today, and then hopefully picking that vendor this week. Things are moving along very well. Hope you all had a good weekend!

Florist: BOOKED!

This afternoon I met with Stephanie from Bouquet's of Austin. We went over her already beautiful proposal  and I gladly booked her. I am so excited about this vendor. She was totally willing to work with my budget and helped me come up with some really cool ideas. I think she is going to help me make my day so special.

I have been trying to go with vendors that I really vibe with and she is one of them. After I booked her we actually sat there and talked for a good 20 minutes. Just chatting. It was so nice to just hear about her other brides, things she was up to and how she runs her business.

If anyone is out there reading this in Austin that is looking for a florist for any reason I highly recommend her. I don't have pictures of the final product, since my wedding is not until September, but I just know it is going to be great. Here are some of the inspirations I am using though:

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Hope you all have a great weekend. WF and I have a lot going on this weekend, plus I am attempting an arts and crafts project. I dare not tell you what it is due to the high probability that I will FAIL.

All dressed up and no honeymoon to go!

I have noticed lately that I everything I have been eying up at stores has totally been honeymoon wear. We have yet to book it but I still find all this stuff that I am drooling over. I like to fantasize about me drinking margaritas on the beach in Mexico every time my job stinks or I am sitting around folding laundry in my sweatpants. Every time I do this I just feel better. So we better make that happen. In the mean time here are some things I am coveting right now.

Target.com

 

Target.com

 

Gap.com

Jcrew.com

Lillypulitzer.com

Lillypulitzer.com

Lillypulitzer.com

One day I will have the money to buy all my Lilly stuff. The Target items may or may not already be in my shopping cart as we speak. HMMM Target.

Meanwhile, back to fashion trends I can't pull off. The boyfriend clothes look, love it but it does not love me:

Tuesday Porn

You dirty girl, you thought I had real porn on here didn't you!? I don't, but I do have some pictures of my fiance doing dishes. To me this is porn. Its amazing to me how many men out there don't help out around the house. My WF is not always perfect but he does help out DAILY with the dishes. I cook and he cleans. It is awesome. He has been really great these last few weeks as I get deeper into wedding planning land. I really can't thank him enough for trying when he can. So just for you here is a taste of my porn collection for you ladies: 

Work it....

I don't know about you but I need a cigarette...